He hit .267, belted 22 home runs and drove in 81 runs for the Boston Red Sox.

Apparently, he thought that was enough for the Red Sox to keep him, and the 32-year-old outfielder had his say with reporters after Boston opted to not resign him—instead he agreed to a three-year deal worth $26 million with Arizona.

“We just couldn’t agree on terms,” Ross told reporters on a conference call. “At some point—just to be completely honest with you guys—they thought I was going to come back no matter what. That I loved playing there, and I did. It’s a great park. It’s Fenway Park. How can you not love playing at Fenway, going to work every day there? But I just wanted to be treated fairly. I wasn’t asking to be overpaid. I didn’t want to break the bank and they weren’t willing to do it. I’m sure there’s reasons why. I don’t know why. You have to ask them why. It just didn’t work out.”

“He had a different way of doing it,” Ross said of Valentine, who was fired after his one season in Boston. “I would say that a lot of guys on the team were so used to the way Terry Francona did things that it was kind of a shock to them that Bobby would come in and say things and do things that they weren’t on board with. That kind of caused some problems. I never butted heads with him or had any issues with him. That’s how it was.”